Excellent hi-res gallery of the Boston Police, SWAT and FBI teams

[Hibernator]

Some fantastic pics in here for the geardos! If you don't already check out The Brigade and The Chive regularly, you should ;-)

 

KCCO!

 

http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2013/04/21/boston-part-2-in-high-res-101-hq-photos/

[Airsoft-Ed]

There's some hella snazzy shit in those photos. Can't believe there were so many people on the ground with all that stuff, camo'd rigs and rifles, E and P mags, various sights, snipers, Humvees and even freakin helmet mounted binos! At least I assume they were binos 'cos if they were NVGs WTF?! Why the bloody hell did they need all that?!

 

I think they might've mistaken the suspects for the entire population of Eastern Europe.

[Deva]

You weren't really expecting them to just put a couple of extra plods on the beat were you? This is the US we are talking about here..

[jcheeseright]

those are PVS-15 NVGs, extremely mega expensive and until recently (ish) the preserve of super elite units like DEVGRU and CAG. As for the tooled up FBI guys, the FBI have a mega budget and seriously well trained guys, the HRT and the DEA FAST teams for example are more soldier than policeman.

[Nickona]

The FBI do have some very nice stuff there!!

 

I loved the old school officer with a bit of a belly rocking the M16A1